Bi-Directional Amplifiers (BDAs)
When your building traps the signal, BDAs enable first responder radio communications to break through.
Improve Communication Anywhere on Your Property
Bi-directional Amplifiers (BDAs) are essential for enhancing in-building radio and cellular signal coverage, ensuring that emergency responders, building occupants, and critical systems stay connected when it matters most. Whether you manage a high-rise building, hospital, or warehouse, BDAs are a critical investment for seamless emergency communications and compliance with public safety codes.
What Are BDAs?
BDA systems are signal-boosting solutions designed to enhance and amplify emergency responder communication signals within buildings. BDAs capture weak signals from an external antenna, amplify them, and rebroadcast the stronger signal inside the building.
Simultaneously, they take internal signals and boost them back to the external network. This bidirectional process ensures seamless communication between emergency responders inside and outside the building.
The result is that critical communication systems remain operational in areas where signals may be weak or obstructed, such as basements, stairwells, or across large facilities.
Choose an Industry Leader
In 2019, Prestige Alarm™ was one of the first companies to install a next-generation BDA system in Alabama.
Key Features of BDAs
Signal Enhancement
Boosts the first responder radio frequency signals across areas with little to no signal.
Public Safety Support
Ensures compliance with Emergency Responder Radio Coverage (ERRC) codes.
Customizable Solutions
Can be tailored to fit the size, layout, and needs of your building.
Reliable Communication
Reduces dead zones and improves the clarity of communication for first responders.
Designing and Installing a BDA System
Design, installation, and configuration by experienced professionals are keys to maximizing the effectiveness of a BDA system. Our Prestige Alarm™ team ensures your BDA system is:
Fully compliant with local, state, and federal codes.
Integrated seamlessly with the rest of your commercial property’s fire and life safety system.
Designed to address your building’s specific needs and complement your existing systems.
Tested and certified to ensure optimal performance.
What Buildings Require a BDA System
For new construction, most city regulations require BDA system surveys to determine whether a BDA system is required. BDAs are essential for buildings and facilities with radio frequency signal challenges, including:
Large or Tall Structures
High-rise apartment buildings, hotels, warehouses, shopping malls and large campuses
Complex Structures
Hospitals, schools, airports, campuses, resorts, and data centers
Public Assembly Areas
Convention centers, theaters, event spaces, and sports arenas
Underground Structures
Parking garages, basements, and tunnels
Certain Building Products
Concrete, metal, and low-E glass windows
National Impact of Poor In-Building Coverage
According to the 2023 Safecom Nationwide Survey of Public Safety Organizations by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), poor coverage ranks as the first and third (indoor and outdoor, respectively) most common factors affecting emergency communications nationwide. More than 65% of the organizations nationwide reported “some” or “great” as the extent to which poor in-building coverage impacts their communications.
Choose the Best
Prestige Alarm™ is an authorized dealer, installer, and certifier for Honeywell Bi-Directional Amplifiers, one of the industry’s best solutions.
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Whether you’re interested in BDAs for an existing or potential property, let’s discuss your needs and how our BDA solutions can help keep your commercial space safe.
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